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Originally posted by DPlayMax:
well - are there new ideas that haven't been explored yet?? why not expand the market with new products? make the surfers buy more?
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hard to do, we've given surfers no reason to keep buying porn...I'm just as guilty as I'm a TGPer (ok, not much lately) but we give them everything for free....pictures, movies, etc. what else to offer? live shows, but most people will be totally happy with all the free shit we give them...one market I see expanding is foreign language websites, but even those...it'll be niche marketing and could become difficult as far as payouts...
see, it used to be a bit more difficult to get a free porn fix...you had to know newsgroups and/or IRC chat and know where to go...took a bit more tech savvy...nowadays, average joe knob polisher can fire up his webtv and jerk off to the Hun for hours...never spending a dime and can find porn within a click or two...
2002 will be a thinning of the herd, but I also see it as make or break for a lot of companies...a fresh newbie walking off the street is fucked...the bigger companies are faced with tighter margins and have payroll...so they are going to have to trim some fat...smaller companies that have little financial backing will be hit hard as they'll get manhandled by desperate bigger companies...medium sized companies with enough capital can start making their mark and become tomorrow's porn leaders...medium sized companies with smaller capital will be either bought up by larger companies or squeezed out altogether....
I forsee 2002 as a year when more people work together on projects (for example a talented graphcis guy starts working joint deals with a good programmer and vice vrsa) (This already happens to an extent, but I think it'll be more common.)
We'll also see the death of instant account activation signups for webmaster programs, as quality traffic becomes more of a premium, we'll see it go to almost all private deals and personal recomendations. We've already seen a lot of it happen this year and the trend will continue...we'll also see the bigger companies hiring full staffs of developers to do nothing but generate feeder sites in-house for a fixed rate (already happening, but will increase and continue)
but you never know...
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